So it’s gotten me wondering… what are you, dear GF readers, planning for halloween costumes? Are you aiming for Sexy chewbacca (I’m not a fan, but that darned thing is unforgettable) or more feminine daleks are you just boiling over with a rant about “sexy” everything for halloween?

Three women in Dalek costumes attacking an inflatable Tardis

All excited by the licensed Codex costume (From “The Guild”) or do you prefer to make your own?

Codex Costume from "The Guild"

Are you willing to choose slightly more obscure costumes, or do you stick to the most popular and recognizable, or split the difference and try an alternate outfit for a favourite character?

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It really depends on the weather which costume I’ll wear (if I wear any at all). I have three stuffed away from previous years, all Final Fantasy based. One is the Yuna/Lenne songstress, another is Quistis’ battle outfit, but both of those suffer from short skirts, so they’re bad if it’s too cold out. Not that that’s necessarily stopped me in the past…

The third option is a stylised black mage. Basically it’s just a blue cloak I can wear over any regular clothing I choose. And a yellow witch’s hat. It’s by far the warmest of the three, but also the most unweildy, between the big hat and the floor-length cloak.

I am a biology teacher, and I’ll be going as ATP. ATP breaks off a phosphate group, giving energy to whatever molecule it attaches the phosphate group onto. I’m planning to bring some cookies decorated as phosphate groups, and handing them out to students while telling them they’ve been phosphorylated.

Just put the finishing touches on my Bowler outfit. A friend is going as Ms. Furious. We had a Shoveler lined up but he flaked. Alas, I have been unable to recruit any more members for our super squad. I guess I should have had a barbecue, with a pool.

I am both too broke to buy costumes and not interested in off-the-rack or freezing to death in costumes I don’t like, so I make mine. I’m either going to stick with the dragonfly costume I made for work or go as Joan Jett. Undecided!

Many people look for Halloween costume ideas, but I have put together a list of fun things to do with your Halloween costumes even after October 31st. http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=373 If you have your own funny ideas I would love to hear them.

This year I’m doing a costume from Brandon Sanderson’s Elantris which will allow me to try out a patchwork technique I’ve been interested in for a while, and also wear zombie(ish) makeup. I fully expect no one will recognize me. I have done the feminine dalek thing (before it was really a thing, even!) but that costume’s several years old now, and I prefer making new ones.

It wasn’t the geekiest costume i’ve ever done, but this year i was The Lady Door, from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. The best part – i just wore some fairly mismatched clothes, since the entire thing hinged on the face makeup :)

Other past costumes ranging from not so geeky, to uber geeky, in no particular order:

Medusa
A Computer Date (made a bodice and skirt from discarded circuit boards i got at the MIT swap meet :D )
Fairy Gothmother
Death (from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman)
Tippi Hedren’s character in The Birds